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  • Social Policy in an Era of Competition

    From Global to Local Perspectives

    by Zoë Irving, Kevin Farnsworth, Stefan Kühner, Kate Brown, Peter Dwyer, John Hudson, Chris Holden, Neil Lunt, Stuart Lowe, Theo Papadopoulos0, Antonios Roumpakis1, Naomi Finch2 ...
    Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice?Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years. Drawing on data relating to multiple countries the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Social Policy Review 37

    Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2025

    by Lee Gregory, Gerardo Javier Arriaga-Garcia, Yunyan Li, Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, Carl-Johan Sommar, Johan Nordensvärd, Katherine A. Smith, Aniela Wenham, Antonios Roumpakis, Poland Lai, Jolanta Aidukaite, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Kristina Senkuvinė, Florian Blank ...
    Series series Social Policy Review
    Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship. Featuring expert contributions around elections, ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • The Care Crisis

    What Caused It and How Can We End It?

    by Emma Dowling ...
    An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of careValuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    by Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Technology and the Future of Work

    The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States

    by Bent Greve ...
    We are witnessing the development of new technologies that could have a dramatic impact on markets for both skilled and unskilled labour, including the use of Big Data. In addition, many welfare states have once again been restructured, sometimes weakening states’ protection of employees. This timely book provides a systematic and vigorous analysis of the impact of new technology on the labour ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    Edited by Barry Sadler, Jiri Dusik, Thomas Fischer, Maria Partidario, Rob Verheem, Ralf Aschemann ...
    This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal, looks at the vast lessons of experience and offers new ideas and interpretations as to where ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Predistribution Agenda

    Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth

    Edited by Patrick Diamond, Claudia Chwalisz ...
    The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics. But what does it mean? The predistributive agenda is concerned with how states can alter the underlying distribution of market outcomes so they no longer rely solely on post hoc redistribution to achieve economic efficiency and social justice. It therefore offers an effective means of tackling economic and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • School Choice around the World

    … And the Lessons We Can Learn

    by Christopher J. Counihan, Nick Cowen, Corey A. DeAngelis, Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder, M. Danish Shakeel, Patrick J. Wolf, Toby Young ...
    This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school choice in different countries across Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages which choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden or private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia. Everywhere experience ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Energy Poverty

    (Dis)Assembling Europe's Infrastructural Divide

    by Stefan Bouzarovski ...
    This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which household-level energy deprivation both influences and is contingent upon ... Read more

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  • Older Workers in Transition

    European Experiences in a Neoliberal Era

    Edited by David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Mariska van der Horst ...
    Series series Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement
    More people are extending their working lives through necessity or choice in the context of increasingly precarious labour markets and neoliberalism. This book goes beyond the aggregated statistics to explore the lived experiences of older people attempting to make job transitions.Drawing on the voices of older workers in a diverse range of European countries, leading scholars explore job ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Hidden Wealth of Nations

    by David Halpern ...
    Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to which citizens get along with other independently drives both economic growth and well-being.Much of this hidden wealth is expressed in everyday ways, such as our common values, the way we look after our children and elderly, or whether we trust and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD